To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Summer Scarlet apple
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:20:02 -0400
>Richard may want to look into the history of Pearmains. Its seems that
there was a Summer Scarlet Pearmain, the oldest account I can find is 1849
as follows:
>
>26. Summer Scarlet Pearmain (Bell's Scarlet) English. —
>Medium to large, conical, mostly covered with crimson;
>flesh stained with red; tender and good. Trees grow
>freely, and bear young and abundantly.—Aug. and Sept.
>
This is interesting, but seems to be contradicted by the Herefordshire
Pomona that says:
Scarlet Pippin, Syn.: Bell's Scarlet Pippin, Bell's Scarlet, and others.
Introduced about 1800
Where there is a problem, however, is that this apple is in season from
October to January. So is surely not a summer apple... We could possibly
assume that there was another apples, relatively similar to this one but
ripening earlier, that was called Summer Scarlet.